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France to introduce new sex education guidelines in schools

24 January 2025
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2025-01-24 11:19

The French government is putting the final touches on a reformed sex education syllabus for schools, with some topics, notably around gender identity, causing resistance among conservative groups.

Education Minister Elisabeth Borne who previously served as prime minister under President Emmanuel Macron between May 2022 and January 2024 is spearheading the effort, saying overhauling sex education guidelines was overdue.

The overhauled syllabus is to come into force after the summer holidays this year, and calls for three sex education sessions per year for primary, middle and secondary shools, including private schools. While three such annual sessions have been mandatory on paper for over two decades, they happen only rarely.

The first draft of the syllabus had already sown divisions in the previous government last year when the then-minister for school success, publicly rejected it.

 

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